Female Novel
Chapter 235
"Quim, you've got some guts, attacking someone right under my nose!"novelbin
Howard stormed into the room, livid, and marched straight up to Quim, delivering a stinging slap tohis face. Still seething, he swung back his hand and landed another slap on the other cheek.
Those slaps knocked Quim for a loop!
He was seething inside but did not dare fight back; not even a single word of defiance passed hislips.
After giving Quim a piece of his mind, Howard strode over to Liam with a swift pace that caughteveryone's attention. He bowed with deep respect and reported, "Mr. Cole, I'm here as ordered.We've shut down Quim's operations, and everyone involved is in custody!"
Howard shot Quim a warning look before asking, "Any other orders? I'm on it."
Quim, who had been ready to go down fighting, suddenly felt his knees buckle. He collapsed to theground, his face a mask of terror and hopelessness. It was all over for him.
Quim was seized by a terror so profound it felt like the sky itself was crashing down. He realizedthat his life's work was crumbling before his eyes.
The man standing before him was a force not to be reckoned with. He should have seen it coming.If Liam were just an average Joe married into the Stone family, there's no way he could have hadsomeone like Eaden groveling at his feet. There was Chief Howard, no less, personally takingcharge of the situation, humbling himself before Liam.
Quim's power was nothing compared to that. In a state of sheer panic, Quim's face turned ghostlypale as he scrambled on the floor toward Liam.
Howard watched Quim's pitiful display and sneered, "Quim, I told you you were digging your owngrave. Got any last words?"
Quim, drenched in sweat and shaking uncontrollably, looked up at Liam. Their eyes locked, andQuim felt a choking sense of his own mortality. Desperate, he kept bowing, pleading with Liam tospare him.
"Mr. Cole, I never should have crossed you! Please, I'm begging you to forgive me, I realize mymistake! I was wrong! I shouldn't have crossed you, I just wasn't thinking straight. I'm pleading foryour mercy, Mr. Cole, spare my life! I swear I will be forever in your debt, ready to serve youhowever I can. Please..."
Quim was bowing like mad, his apologies tumbling out nonstop.
His underlings, seeing their boss grovel, were scared out of their wits, dropping their weapons andjoining in the pleas for mercy.
Samara and the rest were even more shaken by the scene!
Billie, in particular, was stunned. Her dad, Quim, had always been larger than life to her, and thenthere he was, throwing away his pride to beg for his life from Liam, of all people.
The image of her dad, once so imposing in her mind, was then kneeling before the very man shelooked down upon, and just like that, her sense of invincibility, built on her father's status, crumbledto dust.
Who in the world was Liam?